To be honest, I've always thought there should be 8 slams, 4 pairs of slams. Merge Indian Wells and Miami and split the difference: Memphis becomes the indoor slam paired with the AO. Newport is the logical choice for 2nd slam on grass. Of course, with it's history, Madrid gets paired with RG. I guess, throw Canada a bone and pair the Rogers Cup with the US Open. This begs the question: How many slams would Rafa, Nole, and Murray win? Poor Roger will be toast!!

Dumb idea that Babbs had! Lol 8 slams? Best of 5 in these events for the men? That would never fly. Lol

I would like to see the Master's finals go back to best of 5 (final only). Right now even though the 1000 events are worth more points, nothing really separate them from a regular tournament.

Even the Olympics at least had a final where you played best of 5 and the Masters events are worth more than the Olympics.

I don't know what to say about the Newport event because they will never get the top players just because of the schedule -,being on grass AFTER Wimbledon. That sucks. That almost doomed Hamburg because now they can't get the top players any more either.

Never happen in these locations unless they made substantial improvements to equal that of other Grand Slam menus. If Oracle's Larry Ellison invested $800 million more and added more tennis courts and expanded the entire area infrasturture in Indian Wells similar to Wimbledon then it will be possible to locate it there. Land is cheap there; so it doable. Florida's Key Biscayne does not have a wealthy backer however. It would have to be Indian Wells or nothing.

To be honest, I've always thought there should be 8 slams, 4 pairs of slams. Merge Indian Wells and Miami and split the difference: Memphis becomes the indoor slam paired with the AO. Newport is the logical choice for 2nd slam on grass. Of course, with it's history, Madrid gets paired with RG. I guess, throw Canada a bone and pair the Rogers Cup with the US Open. This begs the question: How many slams would Rafa, Nole, and Murray win? Poor Roger will be toast!!

Why belittle other countries or other CONTINENTS for that matter? I mean, I know this is all about money and about tv ratings and whatnot, but I just hate looking at the Calendar and see that Europe and US have 90% of the most important tournaments... There is not even ONE 1000 Masters in South America, I would cut down some of the numerous 1000 MS tournaments the US has and give a couple to South America, probably one in Argentina, another one in Chile/Brazil... Would love to see a Mexico Masters, but that's North America as well..

US Master Tournaments:- Cincy- Indian Wells- MiamiYou can even count the Canada shield amonth these

and to finish it all you have the US Open.. that's way too many tournaments not to give one or a couple to South America... I have always though TENNIS itself is belittling the chances of hosting a Masters in this part of the Continent... You have had great players from these countries.. specially Argentina..